In my courses, be they an NLP Practitioner or Master Practitioner, PhotoReading, Mind Maps, Memory or any of my courses, it is rare that I give handouts or manuals, as I wish to teach the participants implicitly, that is that they know how to do what I am training by doing, by physically doing the exercises and what I teach.
I do not give out scripts say for the hypnosis, as I want participants to be themselves, to react to their clients and use the appropriate inductions and words that fit the moment.
Too often I have seen and heard hypnotists using scripts verbatim, even “hypnotists” who have the script written down and laminated, reading directly from something that was written maybe fifty years ago by someone else.
They fail to be responsive to the clients needs, give feedback to what is happening to the client, what is happening in the environment.
Yes there is a structure to what I teach, in the process, in how one element of the course leads, links into and is associated with other elements.
I remember one course in particular, where a participant had a list of everything, every element that they thought I should be covering in my training. As I taught the elements, the participant would cross it off their list. At breaks, this participant would say to the other members of the course :-
“Oh, Phillip has now covered this on my list, but he has not done that.”
It took me a while to understand why I was being asked if I would be covering this or that, when in fact I had. This person had obtained “their training content list” from another training provider coming from another licensing organisation, which provided a very much condensed course, giving a manual for participants to read at home.
They failed to realise that this other organisation’s structure of training was different to mine, and that the “content names” had been changed to make their course seem original and unique to them.
It was when I obtained “their training content list,” and went through what we had covered already, that the rest of course participants realised that they had been taught more than the so called list had written down.
And so it is with scripts and manuals. People can rely too much on them. They should be used as a guide only, and the speaker or provider to be themselves, not someone else who wrote a script fifty years ago.
I recently attended a training where the participants were asked to read from a script as they worked on exercises with fellow trainees.
Oh how wooden and false the language used was.
Oh how much information or feedback that the “client” was giving was missed, because the giver, the reader had their face buried in the script.
Lastly, how many manuals or scripts are ever looked at again after a course or training? Mostly they are left under the bed.
I do give out manuals when appropriate along with sample scripts, for example within the stage hypnosis course, PhotoReading etc., but for reference only.
I train my participants how to do what I am teaching from their heart, by actually trying out what I am teaching in the course, learning by doing.
But for those that want an out-line script, I will be publishing them soon. Return here to my blog for more information or subscribe to the blog on the left, for regular updates.